Deranged (1974)
February 2, 1974Release Date
Deranged (1974)
February 2, 1974Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Roberts Blossom
Ezra Cobb
Cosette Lee
Ma Cobb
Leslie Carlson
Tom Sims
Robert Warner
Harlon Kootz
Marcia Diamond
Jenny Kootz
Brian Smeagle
Brad Kootz
Arlene Gillen
Miss Johnson
Robert McHeady
Sheriff
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 2, 1974
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 23m
Content RatingR
Budget$200,000
Genres
Wiki.
Deranged (also known as Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile) is a 1974 psychological horror film directed by Alan Ormsby and Jeff Gillen, and starring Roberts Blossom. Its plot, loosely based on the crimes of Ed Gein, follows Ezra Cobb, a middle-aged man in a rural Midwestern community who begins a string of serial murders and grave robberies after the death of his mother, a religious fanatic who raised him to be a misogynist. Though based on Gein, the film's title is misleading since Gein never experimented with necrophilia; although a necrophile is also defined as having "an obsessive fascination with death and corpses."
Funded by an American concert promoter on a small budget, the production took place in Oshawa, Ontario in the winter of 1973, with a largely Canadian cast and crew. The film premiered in Los Angeles on March 20, 1974.
The film had disappeared since its release in 1974; however, it was rediscovered in Florida in the mid-1990s and was released into home video by distributor America International Pictures’ parent company Metro Goldwyn Mayer.